{"id":3823,"date":"2011-03-13T15:21:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T21:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=3823"},"modified":"2011-03-16T18:19:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T00:19:38","slug":"should-proximity-in-time-play-a-role-in-a-common-sense-obviousness-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=3823","title":{"rendered":"Should proximity in time play a role in a &#8220;common sense&#8221; obviousness analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent oral argument of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Cimline, Inc. v. Crafco, Inc.<\/span>, Chief Judge Rader raised an interesting issue with respect to the timing of an obviousness analysis when the analysis turns on the\u00a0application of &#8220;common sense.&#8221;\u00a0 As you will hear in the following excerpt, the references issued at least ten years before the date of invention.\u00a0 Chief Judge Rader inquired whether it really was &#8220;common sense&#8221; to combine the references if it took ten\u00a0years for someone\u00a0to make the combination.\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2010-1348-excerpt.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>While historically one thinks of timing as being irrelevant when it comes to combining references, perhaps there should be a requirement that\u00a0gaps in\u00a0time be\u00a0considered when\u00a0a party or a court\u00a0takes\u00a0the intellectually easy road of relying on\u00a0&#8220;common sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can read the court&#8217;s opinion here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/images\/stories\/opinions-orders\/10-1348.pdf\">Read<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the entire oral argument here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/oralarguments.cafc.uscourts.gov\/Audiomp3\/2010-1348.MP3\">Read<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent oral argument of Cimline, Inc. v. Crafco, Inc., Chief Judge Rader raised an interesting issue with respect to the timing of an obviousness analysis when the analysis turns on the\u00a0application of &#8220;common sense.&#8221;\u00a0 As you will hear in the following excerpt, the references issued at least ten years before the date of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3823"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3838,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions\/3838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}